Workers prepare to make sandbags to protect the main road from river flooding near a flag of Chinese Communist Party, July 12, 2003 in Fengyang, Anhui Province, China. More than a million people in eastern China were stranded due to floods and rain-fed landslides which have already claimed over 200 lives nationwide since early June, and more heavy rain was forecast, officials and state media said. More deaths were reported in eastern Anhui province.[AP]

Chinese farmer receives food aid from the Red Cross after his home was flooded, in Chuhe, which lies between China's Anhui and Jiangsu province.

A boy rides a bicycle on a flooded road in a village of Xuyi County, east China's Jiangsu Province, Saturday, July 12, 2003. More than 55,000 people were being evacuated in eastern China on Saturday as authorities rushed to cope with some of the worst flooding in more than a decade, and a mudslide caused by rains left more than 40 people missing.

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